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To: wally_bert
I’ve worked with vintage Ampex AVR 2 and 6(?) 2 inch VTRs.

You mean the broadcast-grade ones? With the air bearings? Whoa.

They made a beautiful sound when they were running in sync, as I recall. That high-pitch vertical-retrace frequency, or some integer fraction of it.

I used to be able to hear that when I was a kid. Now I couldn't, but no one else can either. It's gone.

8 posted on 07/04/2015 7:24:11 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

I used to build gizmos for a private investigator back when I was a kid.

He used Super 8 cameras that I modified with an intervalometer and shot a lot of old U-Matic and reel-to-reel video... ancient gear!

I mostly built sound-controlled switches, shutter intervalometers, telephone dial-pulse recorders, transmitters and time-stamp devices for him.


14 posted on 07/04/2015 7:39:14 PM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Steely Tom

The air bearing noise I will never forget.

There was one of each but in different parts of the building.


38 posted on 07/05/2015 4:11:08 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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